Lack of adequate testing has hampered US response to pandemic. FMTNews Covid19
WASHINGTON: The US needs to ramp up testing for the coronavirus as the White House considers when and how to lift stay-at-home restrictions and lockdowns triggered by the pandemic, US health experts said on Sunday.
Top experts on the White House coronavirus task force have made it clear testing is important, however, particularly as the country takes its first steps toward reopening, a move the Republican president has said he wants to make as soon as possible. Diagnostic testing determines if somebody is infected with the virus and antibody testing shows who has been infected and is therefore immune.
“The critical issue is to be able to, in real-time, identify, isolate and contact trace. That’s called containment.” He told CBS “Face the Nation” he had been in intense discussions over the weekend with leaders in neighbouring states “on the whole question of testing, contact tracing, what are the rules of the road going to be for things like bars and restaurants to make sure we don’t have unintended consequences on one side of the river versus the other.”
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